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Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Judi Hardin
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:40:22 EDT


> To be on topic:  one of my gg-granduncles on my dad's side of the family
> died in the Rock Island Prison Camp in 1864; he was listed as a "Missouri
> conscript."  Can anybody translate that?
>
It simply means a Yankee clerk or officer at some point made this notation,
suggesting his status as a combatant was based on other than choice. It could
be true or not, or it could be a note added by a friendly prison guard
intended to help place him in line for release, parole or better treatment. In any
event, it came too late. Rock Island was a hellhole, and had the highest
mortality rate (by far) of any wartime prison.





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